This started out as a search for ALLENS but somehow I have been hooked into CHAMBERLAINS!
I have been fortunate to find a lot of the family I have been looking for through
"Google" and then on to a MARDOS COLLECTION of Portrait and Biographical
record.
JABEZ SMART ALLENS daughter FRANCIS ROGERS ALLEN (all born in Birmingham England)
married WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN in Lima Peru. Both families had travelled a lot Jabez had left
Birmingham for New Zealand where he was an early settler from 1840-1845. By 1846 he was in
Lima . So they certainly moved about! I have them in Chicago, Denver, Iowa, California, A
son WALTER CHAMBERLAIN was well known in Boulder and Denver.
JABEZ was a Glass Manufacturer and WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN and his family seem to be very
enterprizing in making silk, and very early daguerreotype (photography). Their pictures of
mountain scenes were in many homes all over America. There is far too much to write down
here but what I would like to know is where did the MARDOS COLLECTION come from??